History of Dane County, Wisconsin, Part 199

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899; Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1304

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PATRICK BURKE, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Oregon; born in County, Leitrim, Ireland, in 1820 ; he attended the once forbidden and sequestered " Hedge " schools of old Ireland ; came to America in June, 1842 ; settled and remained in Vermont until November, 1848, when he came to Dane Co., and at the first sale bought the first 40 acres of school land ever sold in Wisconsin ; Cassius Fairchild did him a good turn, and, by interceding with Levies, the Land Agent, secured it to Mr. Burke at $160. Mr. and Mrs. Burke began in a log house or claim-shanty, and a couple of years later built one of their own; the boards and shingles were hanled from Milwaukee ; ten years later he bought another 40 acres, on which was a part of his present and pleasant farmhouse ; he now has 240 acres, 180 of which are cultivated. He married in his and her native county, in 1842, Miss Margaret Cowan, born in 1822; they have four children-William, Francis E., John D. and George C. The oldest, is a grain and stock dealer in Friend, Neb .; F. E. studied at the State University ; graduated at the Northwestern University, Watertown, and is now teaching in Clyde, Kan .; John D. took an academic and partial business course at the North- western Business College, Madison ; the two younger sons are on the old homestead, and all are attend- ants of the Catholic Church.

WILLIAM W. CASE, of Case & Warner, Oregon ; born in the town of Rutland, Dane Co., Wis., Feb. 14, 1848 ; his father, C. E. Case, born in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., was a very early settler in Union, Rock Co., he coming, two years later, to a farm in Rutland, where he died Aug. 11, 1876; his widow, Martha M. Case, born in Ripley Co., Ind., is still living. W. W. Case has spent his life, and been educated in Dane Co .; began business as a traveling man for Terwilliger & Lindsey ; followed this two years, then farmed it two years, and, in company with a brother, O. M. Case, began business in the village Dec. 12, 1878 ; the brother retired in favor of Mr. Warner Sept. 17, 1879. Mr. Case married, Jan. 1, 1872, Miss Hattie E. Kocher, a native of Monroe Co., N. Y., born Feb. 19, 1854 ; they have two children-Jessie E. and Mark R. Mr. Case is a Republican.

R. B. CHANDLER, of the Exchange Hotel, Oregon, is a native of Oxford Co,, Me .; at 18 he went to Lowell, Mass., where he was employed in building locks and dams; was also in charge of gangs of men in damming the Merrimack at Lawrence, and controlled 1,500 men in the building of the South Hadley and Holyoke dam ; in 1843, he was in Mexico, and from 1848 to 1852, in California ; the year 1852 found him on a farm in town of Primrose, he having visited the State ten years before; Mr. C. has expended much in ditching and improving his farm of 320 acres in Primrose, erecting a house at a cost of $3,300, which was destroyed by the tornado of May 23, 1878 ; he then came to Oregon, bought, and has since kept, the Exchange. He married Miss Mary Cross, a native of Vermont; they have three children-Warren B., Hannah, and Alma. Mr. Chandler is an independent Democrat, and a whole- souled old settler.

G. R. COLBY, farmer ; Sec. 18, P. O. Oregon; born in the town of Holland, Erie Co., N. Y., June 15, 1833; his father, Ezekiel Colby, born Aug. 12, 1790, in Corinth, Vt., was a pioneer of 1808, in Erie Co., N. Y. He married Anne King, born Sept. 6, 1794, in Cayuga Co., N. Y. ; was a soldier of 1812, and a life-long farmer ; he came West with the three youngest children in 1850, locating on Sec. 16, in Oregon. The parents lived, abont fifteen years prior to the father's death, with G. R .; the sire died June 4, 1880, the mother still surviving ; she and her daughter Ruth (widow of James Smith) are with the son G. R., who settled on part of this present 187-acre farm many years ago, and has erected every building upon it, and the fences, etc. ; during a few years in early times, he worked by the day and month to help the old people; he spent 1863 and 1864 in the gold mines of Oregon and Idaho. Is a Republican and a Mason in good standing. He married Mrs. Jennie Shepard, of Evansville, Wis. ; she was born in Indiana, and her former husband, Freeborn Shepard, died, leaving a son Ernest; Mr. and Mrs. Colby have a son, Eugene, born Aug. 12, 1879. A niece of G. R. Colby married Edwin Cook, and located with him in Northern Wisconsin, where they perished by shutting themselves in a cellar during the memorable fire of 1871.

F. C. COMSTOCK, merchant, Oregon ; born in Otsego Co., N. Y., in 1839 ; son of William and Fanny Comstock, both natives of New York, who settled on Government land in town of Dunn,

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Dane Co., in the spring of 1845 ; they began poor, and entered 40 acres at a time, as their means would allow ; the father dying in 1875, on the 200-acre farm, F. C. did his share of breaking and improving here, and later ran a thrashing machine, dealt in horses and other stock ; was two years in the grain busi- ness in Oregon. He married Sarah Newsham, in Erie Co., Penn., her birthplace; she died May 22,. 1874. Mr. Comstock formed a partnership with E. P. Tracy, and they have been in mercantile business in Oregon Village since October, 1878; carry a complete general stock of dry goods and groceries, hats, caps, clothing, and have a separate store, opened in April, 1880, for the sale of boots and shoes ; Mr. C. also handles agricultural machinery. Is a Democrat.

JOHN H. COWARD, boot and shoe maker, Oregon; born in Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, England, Oct. 30, 1824; his only schooling was an attendance of part of two winters at Upwell, Teun. ; at 15, he left his father's farm on Exmore Drove, and was apprenticed to learn his trade ; since that day he has devoted himself, body and soul, to his profession, with a degree of success second to that of no living man ; until his emigration, he worked in London and elsewhere. Married, in Cambridge, Dec. 26, 1851, Miss Martha, daughter of Rev. Francis Chapman; she was born Sept. 8, 1822, in Cambridge. Resolved to better his fortunes in Republican America, he was among the third vessel load of emigrants landed at Castle Garden ; this was Aug. 3, 1855, and he brought his family at once to the house of Charles Hunt, Rutland; three months later, he located in an unfinished house in Oregon Village, so open that it was common for them to remove tubs full of snow from the rooms during the winter. Began business in the old Bennett shoe shop, and, in 1859, built a home of his own. Mr. Coward has not been off the shoe-bench ten days since his landing here, twenty-five years ago; is a Methodist Episcopalian, with his wife, also a Good Templar ; has six children-John, Martha, Frank, Fred, Hattie and Cassius ; the sec- ond born died when two years old. Mr. Coward is a born Republican. His splendid work in fine boots attracted the attention of leading men of Madison years ago, his first customers for patent-leather boots being Delaplaine and Burdick of that city ; his shop is now well lined with lasts made to conform with the shape of different feet, many of them for noted men of the county and State.

T. B. COWDREY, merchant tailor, Oregon; born in the town of Sheffield, Berkshire Co., Peno., Jan. 7, 1828; four years later, his parents settled on Sturgis Prairie, Mich., and were soon warned to leave by hostile Indians; they found refuge among the French settlers of Climax Prairie ; after their return to Sturgis Prairie, his mother died, his father, Bly Cowdrey, returning to Pennsylvania, thence to Dane Co. in 1844; is still hale and hearty at 81. T. B. Cowdrey has led a busy and eventful life, roving through various States, following his trade a great part of the time ; he located in Oregon in 1862 ; has been burned out twice, and been in the merchant tailoring business thirteen years. He married Miss H. M. Yager, of Belleville, Wis. ; they have one sou, De Forrest B., born Dec. 6, 1862, in Oregon. Mr. Cowdrey is a liberal Democrat in politics ; is Senior Warden in Oregon Lodge, No. 151, A., F. & A. M., and a member, with his wife, of the Oregon M. E. Church, of which he is a Trustee.

CHARLES H. CRONK, agent and operator of the C. and N .- W. R. R., Oregon; born in Rensselaer Co., N. Y., in 1831 ; his father's people were early settlers on the Holland Purchase, and his mother was of Dutchess Co., N. Y .; they came West in 1847, and still reside at Brodhead ; the son, our subject, was educated in the Ball Seminary, Hoosac Falls, N. Y .; began teaching district school, and finally taught a number of terms in the old seminary, where he last studied ; the illness of a sister called him West in 1848 ; he settled in Wisconsin, and taught school in Porter, Rock Co., and in Footville, where he married Miss A. E. Richards, a native of Connecticut. Was station agent at Footville two years, and, in 1864, succeeded Hy Edgerton at Oregon. Mr. C. became a Mason in Footville, and was the founder of the Oregon lodge, doing all preliminary work, and interesting others; was the first Master, and held the position eight years. Mr. Cronk is a Republican, and a live business man, owning one of the finest homes in the village ; has four children-Waldo B., born in Footville, Fannie E., Anna M., and Claude H., all born in Oregon.

JAMES DAY, mason, Oregon ; born in 1817, on the Isle of Wight, county of Hampshire, England ; grew to manhood and learned his trade there. Married Eliza Stone, who was born in the village of Areton, the birthplace of the " Dairyman's Daughter." In 1851, Mr. Day and family came to America ; he worked at his trade two or three years in New York City and less than two years in Western New York ; came to Fitchburg, Dane Co., in Sept., 1855, and settled in Rome Corners the next Decem- ber. His wife died here in March, 1869. On the 12th of April, 1870, he married Mrs. Emma Colby, born in Dover, England, Feb. 14, 1825 ; is a daughter of Thomas Rodgers and Esther (Ford) Rodgers, who died in England. Mr. R. and family came to America in 1832 ; he was a shoemaker, and died in Janesville. The daughter married Marvin Colby, a shoemaker, in New York State ; they settled, 1857,

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in Oregon, where Mr. C. died in March, 1869, leaving three children-Annette, Elizabeth, and Mortimer. Mr. and Mrs. Day have a large and pleasant home in the village, partly built by him in 1874 ; Mr. Day has worked at his trade forty years ; he united with the M. E. Church in England ; has been Steward of the Oregon Church twenty-four years, and a Trustee twenty years. Republican.

DE WITT C. DEVINE, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Oregon; born March 19, 1814, in Chau- tauqua Co., N. Y .; eighteen years later, the family settled in Erie Co., Penn., where he married Hannah Clark, who, at her death, left a son-Clark. He married again in Cheshire Co., N. H., Miss Paulina Bailey ; they came West in August, 1846, and settled on the farm of 80 acres, where Mrs. Devine died in 185-, leaving four children-Alonzo, Judson, Charles and Hannah. His farm, like all those in the " Devine Settlement," was once burr-oak openings. In 1852, he married Mrs. Hannah, widow of Joseph Camp, who died leaving four children-David, Thomas, Alfred and Mary; her maiden name was Hannah Smith, and her birthplace New Jersey; George and Ella are the children by this union. Clark Devine was one year in the Union service, and died in a St. Louis hospital; Thomas and Alfred Camp served three years each, though the latter came home a physical wreck, and is now in Oregon Territory ; Thomas was a musician, and is now in Portage, Wis. Mr. Devine is a member of the Baptist Church, and a Re- publican ; his pioneer experiences have resulted in his securing a valuable farm, with first-class buildings.

JAMES B. DEVINE is a son of Joseph and Caroline (Thomson) Devine, and was born in 1844, in Walworth Co., Wis. ; yielding to a sudden impulse, he walked up the railroad track to Madison, a distance of fourteen miles, on the 1st of April, 1864, and enlisted in the 37th W. V. I. ; was danger- ously sick with both yellow fever and typhoid fever during the first part of his service, and was only saved by the care and good sense of a nurse; recovering, he participated in the final struggles made by a dying Confederacy at Richmond and Petersburg; after the two-days fight of April 1 and 2, 1865, part of the rebel works having been captured and the rest silenced, Mr. Devine, believing them abandoned, offered to cross the lines if his Lieutenant would stop the firing of his company; it was stopped, when Mr. Devine and Thomas Applebee crossed, entered the rebel works, and the Union occupation was the result; he was mustered out in July, 1865, returned, and is now in charge of his father's homestead. He married Emily P. Glidden, born in Oneida Co., N. Y .; their eldest is an ethereal-looking boy of 9 summers, who weighs 166 pounds, and has weighed 172-"a good chunk of a boy;" there are three children-Joseph A., Burnet M. and Erma E .- but only the eldest is unusually large.

' JOSEPH DEVINE, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Oregon ; born Dec. 23, 1809, in Fabius, Madi- son Co., N. Y .; is the eldest of the nine children of Joseph and Amy (Griswold) Devine; the nine, in order of age, were : Joseph, Manus G., De Witt C., Polly, William R., Bennett, Sally, Adeline and John. No more genuine type of the pioneer can be found in the Northwest than the man whose name heads this sketch ; in 1831, he was in the now State, then Territory, of Michigan; Chicago was then a fort and trading-post ; Milwaukee, almost unheard of; he made two later visits here, and came West with a family in 1844, spent a year in Walworth Co., Wis., and, in the spring of 1845, settled on his present farm of 79 acres, which he has made a good home. Mr. Devine is a Baptist in religion, and a Republican ; was Assessor twice, and Supervisor many years after; was once Chairman of the Town, pro tempore. He married Miss Caroline Thomson, born Feb. 16, 1816, in Cheshire Co., N. H .; they have five living chil- dren-Ellen, William, Mary, James B. and Alice C. No family in Dane Co. did more to save the Union thao his, all the four sons volunteering; Albert served three months, and died at Sulphur Springs, Mo .; William fought at Pilot Knob, Corinth, and through the Red River expedition, serving three years; is now an Iowa farmer ; Henry enlisted in the regular army, served six months, died at Atlanta, and is buried at Marietta, Ga.

MANUS G. DEVINE, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Oregon ; born May 4, 1812, in Chautauqua Co., N. Y .; in 1832, he settled in Erie Co., Penn., and resided there until June, 1847, when he came West and bought his farm of 80 acres in Oregon; this was wild, new land, which he has brought under cultivation, erecting a barn, ets. William Devine, born in 1818, came with Joseph to Walworth Co., Wis., in 1844, but afterward returned, and after the death of his father, in 1850, settled up the estate, and the same year came to Oregon with his mother, brother John and three sisters ; he owned an excel- lent farm adjoining his brother's, on which he built a large and tasteful residence; he died, a sin- gle man, in March, 1880. M. G. and Adeline, also single, lived with him during these thirty years in Wisconsin, and are now on his farm. Bennett Devine, born in 1821, came West in 1845; he died in Union, Rock Co., Wis., in January, 1871, leaving a widow and four children. John Devine, boru Nov. 6, 1831, is one of the farmers in the " Devine Settlement," and has been since 1850, having a farm and a

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family. Polly, born in July, 1816, married Robert Blair, who died in Pennsylvania; she has three chil- dren, and lives in Brooklyn, Green Co. Sally Devine died in Oregon, as did the aged mother.

J. M. DOOLITTLE, proprietor of the Oregon meat market; born Nov. 21, 1836, in Canandaigua, Ontario Co., N. Y .; is a son of Edward L. and Sarah (Williams) Doolittle, both natives of Massachusetts ; J. M. learned shoemaking, and resided in the State of New York till he came West in 1867 ; began farming in Stoughton, and later near Janesville ; came to Oregon in 1872 ; has the only meat market in the village, and does a good local business. He married, Feb. 22, 1867, Miss Mary J. Goff, of his native town ; they have two children-Frederick, born April 21, 1870, in Janesville, Wis., and an infant son, born July 18, 1880, in Oregon. Mr. Doolittle is a Republican, now Deputy Sheriff, and is a member of the Oregon Lodge, A. O. U. W.

WILLIAM H. DRAHER, farmer, Secs. 14 and 11; P. O. Oregon; born in Hamilton, Monroe Co., Penn., Nov. 20, 1835; his parents, Simon and Mary Draher, were from Northampton Co., Penn .; the family came West in July, 1851, spent three years in Union, Rock Co., Wis., and, in March, 1854, settled on 120 acres of the present farm of 280 ; it was oak openings, and most of the clearing and breaking was done by the Drahers ; Mrs. Draher died Nov. 30, 1873; the father, with W. H. and John A., now own the farm. They are stanch Republicans, W. H. serving as Supervisor in 1876-77 and "78, and Chairman in 1879. He married Miss Susan Babbett, Christmas Day, 1868; she was born near Girard, Penn .; they have two children-Isaac and Velma. John A. Draher married Miss Mary E., daughter of Schuyler Gilbert, Esq., of Oregon, March 27, 1873.

EDWARD W. DWIGHT, Oregon; is a lineal descendant of John Dwight, who came from England to the colonies in 1635, located at Dedham, Mass., and founded a family famous in the annals of New England; he was one of the five trustees placed in charge of the first free school ever taught in America, said school being instituted in 1644, and supported by town tax ; the daughter of Jonathan Edwards, the world-famed theologian, married Timothy Dwight, their son; Timothy was a noted preacher of his time, a chaplain in Washington's army, and author of the war ode, "Columbia ;" after the Revolution, he was made President of Yale College ; his son, Dr. Benjamin W. Dwight, born Feb. 10, 1780, in Northampton, Mass., married Sophia Strong, born Jan. 1, 1793, in Heath, Mass., and descended from an historic New England family ; they had six children-Benjamin Woodbridge, Sophia, Theodore Williams, Mary, Ed- ward Woolsey and Elizabeth; the daughters have gone the way of all the earth; of the sons, the eldest, a Presbyterian clergyman, is Principal of Dwight's High School, Clinton, N. Y .; is the author of the Dwight Genealogy and many other valuable works ; T. W. Dwight, LL. D., is a graduate of the Yale Law School; the graduates of his law school, established in New York City, 18-, are at once admitted to the bar of the State ; no law school on the continent has won a more extended fame or is more highly extolled by the best legal talent of America and England. Mr. D. has been in the highest positions in the courts of New York, and was one of the Committee of Seventy (Anti-Tammany). E. W. Dwight, boro at Catskill, N. Y., April 8, 1827, studied classics under his oldest brother, and, when 18, went on a whaling cruise of a year's duration ; returning to his native shores, he resided in York State until September, 1847, when he located on a farm in Spring Prairie, Walworth Co., Wis .; seven or eight years later, he went to Iowa and spent a year, then settled on his present farm ; Mr. D. has a half-section, with excellent buildings, most of the improvements having been made by himself and wife ; she is Elizabeth, daughter of John and Mary (Lull) Foote, born March 31, 1827, in Clinton, N. Y., where they were married May 16, 1848; they have four children-Mary S., Delia E., Edward F. and Theodore W .; the eldest was born in Spring Prairie, and the others in Oregon. Mr. Dwight was a Republican, from the troubled and stormy birth of that party up to the time its leaders sold it out for gold; in 1861, he was Assemblyman from his District, and took an active part in the preparations made by that most historic of our Legislatures to meet the South on the battle-field ; a secret caucus was called, and among such men as Randall, King, Schurz, Harvey, Nobles, etc .; Senator Worthington alone seemed to realize the magnitude of the coming struggle; he wanted a million dollars placed at the disposition of the State officers for war purposes. Mr. D. was elected Chair- man of Oregon in 1855, served until 1861, and from that time till the close of the war, doing more than all others to secure for the town her splendid war record, of which she is so justly proud, neglecting his own interests for those of the people ; he personally hired most of the substitutes, walking the streets of Madison with hundreds of dollars in his pockets with which to pay them off ; over $4,000 was thus dis- posed of, himself and Nathan York (Associate Supervisor) giving at one time their private notes for $2,600, which the town paid, the brothers, T. W. and E. W., making speeches in the Oregon churches, which resulted in the prompt filling of the quota of 1864, a $5 bonus being offered for the first to come forward ; since war times, Mr. D. has read and studied much on the questions of finance, and taken a stand which has resulted in his nomination as an Elector from his State on the Greenback platform of 1880.

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HENRY ELLSWORTH, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Oregon ; is a son of John Ellsworth, who was born, as was his wife, in Ontario Co., N. Y .; her maiden name was Eliza N. Green ; they came West and settled on the Oregon farm in 1845 or 1846; of the 200 acres only a few were broken, and here, in a log house, Henry Ellsworth was born April 14, 1849; eight years later, the family settled in Mifflin, Iowa Co., Wis., where the father owns a stock farm of 600 acres ; he spent 1864 on the Oregon farm, and has since been an Iowa Co. man. Henry Ellsworth attended district schools up to his 16th year, was three years in the Platteville Normal School, taught one term, and married, when 19, Miss Amelia Barn- heisel ; she was born in Niles, Trumbull Co., Ohio, her father, George B., settling in Grant Co., Wis., in 1857, he enlisted in Co. C, 25th W. V. I., and died in hospital at New Albany, Ind., in 1865; his son Martin enlisted in Co. C, 2d W. V. I., was fatally shot at second Bull Run, lay nine days on the battle-field, which, with two amputations of his leg, rendered death a boon. Mr. Ellsworth was for three years in business in Highland, Iowa Co., and then settled on the Oregon farm, where he has built a pleas- ant home. He is a Democratic Greenbacker, and was two years a Justice of the Peace; is now Master of Oregon Lodge, 151, A., F. & A: M. Mrs. E. was educated in the Lancaster High School and the Platte- ville Normal School; she began at 17 and taught nine terms; is now the mother of five children-John, Laura, Anna, George and Eliza; the two eldest were born in Highland, and the others on the Oregon farm.

M. J. FISHER, of Powers & Fisher, Oregon; born in Cooksville, Rock Co., Wis., Oct. 1, 1849 ; his parents, J. W. and P. S. Fisher, settled in Rock Co. in 1845; they were New York State people, and settled on a new farm in Oregon in 1847 ; the neighborhood is known as Fisher's Valley, and here J. W. Fisher ended his life-work, dying Oct. 19, 1877, leaving six children-Marshall J., Frances M., Edwin, Charles, Henry and Maude. M. J. attended the common and select schools of Oregon, also the Evansville Seminary ; he taught seven winters, first in 1871; was hotel clerk in Leroy, Minn., and at Beloit, Wis .; was in the mercantile business from 1876 until August, 1880, when, with C. E. Powers, he bought the livery and sale stable of C. Waterman ; it is the only one in the village, and business opens up well for the firm, who have ten horses, and are prepared to furnish good rigs at fair rates; Mr. Powers has been in the mercantile business here for several years past, and the firm still maintains a stock of gro- ceries, jewelry, watches, notions, etc. Both are Republicans, Mr. F. also, belonging to the Orders of A., F. & A. M. and the A. O. U. W. He married Anna Story, of Oregon, and has two children-Max and Clyde. Mrs. Powers was Frances Munger, a native of Madison Co., N. Y.

GEORGE H. FOX, M. D., Oregon; is the eldest son of Joseph G. aud Mary (Lalor) Fox. J. G. Fox, son of William and Ellen Fox, was born in County Westmeath, Ireland, April 12, 1822 ; was educated at Waterford Seminary ; came to America (first time) in 1834 ; came West in 1844, living in Fitchburg with his brother George, while reclaiming his then new farm in Oregon. Mr. F. was elected Register of Deeds in 1851-52. He is one of the oldest and most successful of the Oregon farm- ers, owning 360 acres well improved. Mary (Lalor) Fox died Aug. 30, 1850, leaving four children- George H., born June 6, 1846; Anna C., died June 16, 1878; Joseph P. and Ellen ; by the present wife, formerly Harriet L. Adamson, he has a son, John F. H., born, as were all the children, on Sec. 10, Oregon Township. George H. Fox attended district school six months, and, in 1857, entered the select school of Margaret Payne, of Evansville, Wis .; he studied under private tutors until 1861 or 1862, entered the State University and attended until June, 1865 ; he began the study of medicine under Drs. William H. and Phillip Fox, and, in August, 1866, entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City ; took the first course, and, at the age of 21, began practice in Dayton, Wis .; returned to Bellevue in the fall of 1868, took the full course, and graduated in March, 1869; practiced thirteen months in Dayton, then located in Oregon, where he has built up a large practice. He married, in Buf- falo, N. Y., Lucy Allen, a native of Hamburg, Erie Co., N. Y .; they have five children-May, Paul, Lynn, Anna C. and Neil. The Doctor is a member of the Wisconsin State, American and Dane County Medical Associations, and of the Oregon Lodge A. O. U. W. Is an Independent Democrat.

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History of Dane County, Wisconsin, Part 199

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899; Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company Number of Pages: 1304

Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899; Western Historical Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1304